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No Guinness for christmas
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I thought that was the going rate for a pint of anything these days?
£4.70 in my local. Reputed to be the second best pint of Guinness in Ealing, and the 4th best in west London.
James Dimitri on Instagram: " Top Guinness West London… and they’re all under a fiver. Creamy pints, domed heads, good shtick, clean glasses. 1. O’Briens, West Ealing - £4.60 - One of the best you’ll get in London. 2. Angie’s, Westbourne Park - £4.5
2,974 likes, 112 comments - jamesdimitri on March 19, 2024: " Top Guinness West London… and they’re all under a fiver. Creamy pints, domed heads, good shtick, clean glasses. 1. O’Briens, West Ealing - £4.60 - One of the best you’ll get in London. 2. Angie’s, Westbourne Park - £4.50 - Incredible...
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The best is considered to be O'Briens
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Lovely little boozer but the only other draught is Carlsberg, I am a Kronenbourg guy.
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I am based in west London. A Kronenbourg in the Shanakee, W5 (my pub of choice) is £4.80. There are about, 4 other proper drinkers' pubs that are even cheaper. The equivalent in any of the local Fullers pubs would be in excess of 6 quid. From memory, a pint of the Japanese lager, Asahi is about £7, lovely crisp/dry pint though. Clever move on their behalf. They spent £250m to purchase the Fullers brewery in Chiswick and negotiated that Fuller sell their Japanese lager. At some point, I guess the Japanese will move production of Fullers beer to somewhere else and build a massive housing estate on the side of the Thames.
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Dublin is effin' expensive- full of tourists though. I was over in Ireland (county Limerick) back in August. A pint was about 30% cheaper than Dublin
Maybe in London. In Bristol I pay £4.60 at one pub and £4.50 at another for Doom Bar. The latter does £1 off a pint all day Mondays and Thursdays which is excellent value. Cheaper than that it's 'Spoons where DB is approx £3.20.
Just come back from Czech Rep where only £1.30 pint in non-tourist places for their top quality lager. Did over indulge a little!
Fullers do a great stout. Black cab I think it’s called
I lived in Ealing in the late 70s, my brothers wife is from Ealing, he is still there although he moved to Hanwell a few years ago.It is on the diagonal on Haven Green- opposite Ealing Broadway station. In the late 80's when I was doing pub crawls in Ealing, it was a Greek restaurant. It became a pub in the late 90's under a different name (Doherty's). Doherty's was owned by the guy that owns the Redroom's night club (previously known as the famous Ealing Jazz club).
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The North Star is still there. I rarely ever go there.
The Feathers closed quite a long time ago (2008). Upstairs was converted into flats and downstairs became a Metro bank. So when you went there was Reg, the black guy with all the gold sovereign rings, the bouncer?
So when were you drinking in Ealing?
There was another pub on Ealing Broadway called the Bell I think, it is now a Wetherspoons apparently.
One thing that used to annoy me was the pubs closing in the Afternoons.Lol.
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Never heard that and it doesn't make economic sense, not calling you out, but interested to see a source
I worked in Fullers Brewery on the night shift.
A Scottish mate got me a few weeks temporary work there.
The best bit about the job was going for tea breaks.
In them days they had beer pumps in the canteen, full time workers were given a couple of little brass discs about the size of a ten pence piece, the beer pumps were slot operated, you put the little disc in the slot and you could pull yourself a pint or maybe a half pint.
As I was only part time casual , I didn't get any discs, my Scottish mate gave me a couple of washers from his tool box and said , try them, I put one in the slot and pulled a pint.
I doubt health and safety laws would allow beer pumps in canteens these days.
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A friend had a holiday job in a local brewery, he was being shown round on his first day about 9 am and in one of the barrelling rooms he commented that someone was drinking a pint, "that'll be his fourth" was the reply
My original source was Beoir the Irish beer consumer group . It was then confirmed by our guide on a tour of the Dublin brewery that the beer is shipped in tanks to the Uk for kegging and that includes beer destined for the republic. I think the company prefer not to advertise this for obvious reasons but I understand your reticence in believing me.
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